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mortgagee shall not be required to look to the application of the
proceeds of the mortgage.

54. Where an infant is entitled to any lands or tenements, or
chattels real, or is entitled to any particular estate for life or for
years, or otherwise, or to a remainder or reversion, or executory
devise, or if an infant be entitled to any trust or use in or out
of such lands, real estate or chattels real, or the rents, issues and
profits thereof, in all such cases the court [, on petition of the
guardian or next friend, and on being satisfied by proof as in cases
where a guardian applies for the sale of an infant's real estate, that it
would be advantageous for said infant to demise such lands, real
estate or chattels real, may decree] may, if in & proceeding in ac-
cordance with the Maryland Rules for the encumbrance of an infant's
property it shall appear to be for the benefit and advantage of such
infant, decree that the same be demised for a term of years, renew-
able forever, or otherwise, and yielding such rent, and on such terms
and conditions as the court may, direct?; provided, that where the in-
fant is only entitled to a part of the estate, as tenant of the particu-
lar estate, or remainderman or otherwise, all the owners of the
other parts, so as to embrace the entire fee if a freehold estate,
or the whole term if leasehold, assent to the passing of such decree.

59. [Upon the application of the guardian or next friend of an
infant, the court may, if it appears for the benefit and advantage
of such infant, ] A court may, if in a proceeding in accordance with
the Maryland Rules for the alienation of an infant's property it
appears to be for the benefit and advantage of an infant, authorize
and decree an exchange of real estate or chattels real in which such
infant has any estate, interest, trust or property or benefit, for
other real estate or chattels real, or interest, trust or property
therein; and the court, in decreeing such exchange, may not require
equality or sameness in the quantity or character of the estate
or interests, and the court may appoint trustees to execute the
deeds necessary to carry such exchange into effect.

72. A petition for adoption, as hereinafter described, may be
preceded by a petition for guardianship with the right to consent to
adoption, and such guardianship decree, which the courts having
jurisdiction of adoption matters may require and shall have power
to grant after such hearing and investigation as the court may deem
appropriate, shall terminate natural parental rights, [provided that
due notice of the proceedings shall have been given immediately
upon the filing of the petition by summons, order of publication, or
otherwise, as the court may order to be given to the natural parent
or parents, as the case may be, ] and [when such notice shall have
been given, ] the duly appointed guardian's consent to an adoption,
for which the petition may be filed in the same proceeding, shall
eliminate the necessity of further notice to the natural parent or
parents. [When a petition for guardianship with the right to con-
sent to adoption precedes a petition for adoption the titling of the
cause shall be substantially as follows: "Ex parte in the matter of
the petition of....... for guardianship with the right to consent

to adoption of a minor. "] In all respects not mentioned in this
section, adoption proceedings preceded by a guardianship petition,
as herein described, shall conform to the procedure outlined in this